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Place Value Building Numbers

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Place Value Building Numbers

A food bank is checking its stock and deliveries. Use place value to read, build, compare and round whole numbers and decimals. Show your thinking where asked.

Read the stock records

The food bank records 38,407 cans, 6,052 jars and 14,305 packets in its storeroom.

1.Write 38,407 in expanded form. Include the value of each non-zero digit.
2.In 6,052, what is the value of the digit 5? Choose one.
  • 5
  • 50
  • 500
  • 5,000
3.Complete the chart for 14,305. Put one digit in each place; use a zero where needed.

Ten-thousands

Thousands

Hundreds

Tens

Ones

4.Use the digits 2, 0, 7, 4 and 9 exactly once to make the greatest possible five-digit number.
5.Using the same digits 2, 0, 7, 4 and 9 exactly once, make the smallest possible five-digit number. Explain why the first digit cannot be zero.
6.A delivery number has five digits. It is greater than 40,000 and less than 50,000. Its thousands digit is 3, its hundreds digit is 6, its tens digit is 0, and its ones digit is 8. What is the delivery number?
7.The food bank counted 38,407 cans on Monday and 38,470 on Tuesday. Complete the statement with <, > or =.
8.Order these three stock totals from smallest to largest: 14,305; 14,053; 14,350.
1400014100142001430014400

Decimals in the accounts

A local supplier lists prices in New Zealand dollars. Remember that digits after the decimal point show tenths, hundredths and thousandths.

9.In the price $12.48, what is the value of the digit 4?
  • 4 dollars
  • 4 tenths of a dollar
  • 4 hundredths of a dollar
  • 4 tens of dollars
10.Round $7.86 to the nearest dollar. State which digit helped you decide.
77.17.27.37.47.57.67.77.87.98
11.Explain why the 3 in 43,608 is worth ten times as much as the 3 in 40,368.

3 printable pages

  • Place Value Building Numbers, page 1 of 3: Read the stock records

    Page 1

  • Place Value Building Numbers, page 2 of 3: Decimals in the accounts

    Page 2

  • Place Value Building Numbers, page 3 of 3: 11. Explain why the 3 in 43,608 is worth ten times as much as the 3 in 40,368.

    Page 3

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